All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 18
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NewsPilbrow & Partners’ 70-storey Nine Elms tower scheme revealed
Plans for 3,000-home replacement of scrapped Allies & Morrison scheme would be one of the tallest residential developments in the UK
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NewsHopkins’ revised Vauxhall towers set for approval next week
Scheme to replace former plan for hotel towers on riverside site
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NewsGovernment signs deal to remove mobile signal blackspots along busy rail routes
Agreement with Network Rail and telecoms firms signals move towards public private funding models for infrastructure upgrades
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NewsLipton Rogers submits plans to replace Linklaters’ City HQ with two office towers
SOM-designed scheme to replace 1980s complex near Barbican
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NewsProblems getting building safety sign-offs spooking investors, Quintain boss tells Lords
Construction director at Wembley Park developer says firm would pay higher fees if it improved transparency at regulator
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NewsBuilding Safety Regulator chief to step down in September
Philip White’s ’partial retirment’ announced internally in March but only made public today
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NewsFoster & Partners named winner of competition to design national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II
Practice beats big names including Heatherwick Studio and Wilkinson Eyre to win £46m St James’s Park scheme
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NewsEnergy costs for high growth sectors to be slashed under 10-year industrial strategy
Steel and life sciences among sectors to be given discounts
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NewsPlans to add boutique hotel on top of listed City office block submitted
Square Mile’s latest office to hotel conversion would add four storeys to Victorian-era St Clement’s House
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NewsIndustry welcomes government’s 10-year infrastructure strategy
Plan sets out how £725bn will be spent on infrastructure over next decade
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NewsMark Wild lays bare scale of HS2 failures as he outlines plans to ensure suppliers take on more risk
HS2 chief executive reveals he considered pausing construction to implement ‘comprehensive reset’ of project
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NewsHS2 to be delayed by at least two years with transport secretary set to highlight ‘litany of failure’ on project
Heidi Alexander due publish findings of two reviews on project today
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NewsFirms on alert after RIBA’s £60m HQ overhaul gets green light
Construction work set to start early next year
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NewsCity signs off Make’s 10-storey High Holborn office block
Scheme to replace several 1960s buildings with 50,000 sq m of office and cultural space
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NewsRayner refuses 43ha film studio scheme in Berkshire over green belt harm
4D Studio’s scheme near Maidenhead would have included 15 sound studios on rural site
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Features‘I worry for those who advocate for too much restraint’… The City’s new planning committee chair on the future of the Square Mile
Building sits down with Tom Sleigh for his first media interview after his appointment to one of the UK’s most high-profile planning roles
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NewsSellar revising its original plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station
Developer consulting on new proposals for grade II-listed site which are said to contain ’much less demolition’
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NewsHS2 reports subcontractor to HMRC over alleged tax fraud
Concerns first raised by whistleblowers earlier this year
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FeaturesWhat will the Treasury’s Green Book review mean for construction?
Boris Johnson’s 2020 review of the Treasury’s appraisal process for government investments led to some improvements in how value in schemes is judged, but a new review commissioned by Labour this year has found that many of the old practices remain embedded. Rachel Reeves has said she wants to go ...
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Building London’s millennium projects, 1999
Building speaks to the project teams working under pressure to finish the Millennium Dome, the London Eye and the Jubillee Line extension in time for New Year’s Eve